Airships are free flying aerostats that can be steered and propelled. From LearnThat.org. [dictionary.com]
AFP/Getty Images The aerostat is illuminated in green depicting a tree at opening ceremony. From Wordnik.com. [The Games Begin] Reference
She possessed all the qualities of a good aerostat. From Wordnik.com. [Robur the Conqueror] Reference
At this moment the aerostat rose a few hundred yards. From Wordnik.com. [Robur the Conqueror] Reference
Guests would get a view unobstructed by the aerostat envelope. From Wordnik.com. [The Speculist: Hotels in Space] Reference
Kevin Frayer/Associated Press An aerostat rises during the opening ceremony. From Wordnik.com. [The Games Begin] Reference
In a few moments the aerostat had attained a height of sixteen thousand feet. From Wordnik.com. [Robur the Conqueror] Reference
This combined a 343 ft-long Navy aerostat with four Sikorsky H-34 helicopters. From Wordnik.com. [Boeing’s Blimp-Copter « Isegoria] Reference
Kevin Frayer/Associated Press An aerostat was raised during the opening ceremony. From Wordnik.com. [The Games Begin] Reference
As for the future of aerial locomotion, it belongs to the aeronef and not the aerostat. From Wordnik.com. [Robur the Conqueror] Reference
Then the aerostat, as the great bag is called, was unrolled and spread evenly over this. From Wordnik.com. [Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls] Reference
The aeronef was like an aerostat, which drifts with the fluid masses in which it is plunged. From Wordnik.com. [Robur the Conqueror] Reference
The chance of encountering an aerostat gliding through the air was too remote to be regarded. From Wordnik.com. [Robur the Conqueror] Reference
Then other lashings were made while the great aerostat plunged about like a wounded leviathan. From Wordnik.com. [Illustrated Science for Boys and Girls] Reference
Indranil Mukherjee/AFP/Getty Images The national flag of Pakistan is displayed on the aerostat. From Wordnik.com. [The Games Begin] Reference
To the west was the aerostat balloon, almost eyeball height from where I was standing at 7000+ feet. From Wordnik.com. [Climbing The Florida Mountains Of Southwest New Mexico] Reference
With regards to the means employed to give the aerostat its motion a great deal of progress had been made. From Wordnik.com. [Robur the Conqueror] Reference
The aerostat “Go-Ahead,” built by the Weldon Institute, was to take possession of her natural element. From Wordnik.com. [Robur the Conqueror] Reference
The full light of the sun must have reached the aerostat that was relaying the call, washing out the signal. From Wordnik.com. [Spin] Reference
In April there was a flicker that lasted three days and interfered with the transmission of aerostat signals. From Wordnik.com. [Spin] Reference
Tanner credited in particular a tethered aerostat program that allows the military to watch over the battlefield. From Wordnik.com. [Lockheed reports drop in third-quarter profit despite increase in sales] Reference
Adnan Abidi/Reuters A security personnel stood guard in front of the giant aerostat inside the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium. From Wordnik.com. [The Countdown Begins] Reference
Herein the aeroplane has the advantage over the aerostat even when the aerostat is furnished with the means of locomotion. From Wordnik.com. [Robur the Conqueror] Reference
They persuade themselves that they can be masters of an aerostat as they can be masters of a ship on the surface of the sea. From Wordnik.com. [Robur the Conqueror] Reference
In the Turner yard at Philadelphia there reposed an enormous aerostat, whose strength had been tried by highly compressed air. From Wordnik.com. [Robur the Conqueror] Reference
EPA/Harish Tyagi Workers attached a giant puppet to the aerostat at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi, September 13, 2010. From Wordnik.com. [India This Week] Reference
They believed, and would always believe, that the true atmospheric vehicle was the aerostat, and that to it alone belonged the future. From Wordnik.com. [Robur the Conqueror] Reference
Imagine a magnificent aerostat, lightly and rapidly cleaving space. From Wordnik.com. [Astronomy for Amateurs] Reference
The aerostat barely landed upon the top of the temple, before Cooper. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost City] Reference
"Of course, if you would rather remain here to watch the aerostat --". From Wordnik.com. [The Lost City] Reference
I am going back to the aerostat, and I dare not leave you boys behind. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost City] Reference
For one thing, it would be severe work to draw the stranger bodily up and into the aerostat. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost City] Reference
The aerostat under fire: "We just patched it up, topped it off with helium and sent it back up.". From Wordnik.com. [Defense Industry Daily] Reference
Manpreet Romana/AFP/Getty Images The newly-installed aerostat inside the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium. From Wordnik.com. [The Countdown Begins] Reference
The RAID concept began with a smaller TCOM 17M aerostat as the base platform, instead of the TCOM 71M. From Wordnik.com. [Defense Industry Daily] Reference
Without further delay, he cast the heavy grapnel into that mass of boiling vapour, then fell flat, as an awful jerk was given the aerostat. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost City] Reference
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